Work

I work on digital projects for E4H, a solutions provider for the healthcare industry which puts on events, hosts webinars and makes websites and emails. I create and test websites, design and send mailers, analyse GA stats and even do some copy-writing from time to time.

Previously I worked at B2B media company NewBay Media on the digital team there, managing projects across multiple brands. Before that, I was the editor of NewBay’s PCR – it’s a trade mag for the PC/tech industry, focusing on computer retail. Before that, a sub-editor, responsible for the company style guide, back when sub-editors were still a thing…

I also have significant experience in book publishing/editing.

Choc Lit

From January 2011 to early 2012, I was a copywriter for romance publisher Choc Lit, writing the back cover copy for their books, giving it up only when I became editor of PCR. Truth be told, I miss it like hell, but I’m busy busy busy these days.

Cover copy was written in conjunction with direction from editorial and often the author, to a tight word count.

Never Coming Home by Evonne Wareham

All she has left is hope

When Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her life offering the most dangerous substance in the world: hope.

Devlin, security consultant and witness to the terrible accident scene, inadvertently reveals that Kaz’s daughter might not have been the girl in the car after all.

What if Jamie is still alive? With no evidence, the police aren’t interested, so Devlin and Kaz have little choice but to investigate themselves.

Devlin never gets involved with a client. Never. But the more time he spends with Kaz, the more he desires her – and the more his carefully constructed ice-man persona starts to unravel .

The desperate search for Jamie leads down dangerous paths – to a murderous acquaintance from Devlin’s dark past, and all across Europe, to Italy, where deadly secrets await. But as long as Kaz has hope, she can’t stop looking…

Run Rabbit Run, by Kate Johnson

Sophie Green’s an ex-spy, or trying to be. You wouldn’t believe the trouble she’s in. An MI5 officer has been shot with her gun, her fingerprints all over his office. And no, she didn’t kill him. But she has gone on the run.

Now Sophie’s desperately seeking whoever’s trying to frame and kill her. She’s being forced to work with the least trustworthy man in Europe, MI5 is following her every move, and she’s had to leave the tall, blond, god of a man she loves behind.

Luke Sharpe works for MI6. Or did, until his girlfriend became a murder suspect.

Doing nothing wasn’t an option, so he started investigating. Who cares if it is means jeopardising his career? Sophie’s everything he used to say he never wanted. Young, irresponsible, bright and mad. Now she’s just everything – and she has to live.

She will live, won’t she?

Elsewhere in the world of employment and freelancing…

I’ve also worked as both freelance and in full-time employment for PC Answers and Harlequin Mills and Boon. Yes, the rather different worlds of computing and romance fiction have a long history in my life.

PC Answers:

I was a production assistant, editing articles in Word, and sub-editing them in Quark. Once I left the firm, I worked freelance for a year or so contributing regular two-page tutorials on everything from anti-phishing to obscuring your email address online. Sadly, as print audiences decline, this magazine has now gone the way of the dodo. I miss you, old friend.

Harlequin Mills & Boon:

I initially worked for HMB from 2002-2004 as an editorial assistant, but continued working for the firm for some years after as a freelance editor.

Whilst at the company I worked specifically on Luna, MIRA and Mills & Boon Historical titles, and managed authors from across the series published in the UK.

My proudest moments included working on new fantasy imprint Luna and picking NYT-bestselling author Maria V. Snyder out of the slush pile with her debut Poison Study. I’m sure someone would’ve recognised her talent eventually, but I’m so glad I got there first.

After leaving HMB, I also did some independent freelance work as a book editor, offering revision suggestions for would-be novelists.